And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.
And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.
I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.